If African countries were US cities.

 If African countries were cities. This is purely metaphorical and anecdotal: My rationale includes geography, music, reputation, industry, music, cities having similar sounding names to countries, and well thought out questions such as: "Which country would be full of DC niggas?"

New York - Egypt: The current and historical Empire. The richest city, the business, the money. It's also dramatically different than any other city. 

L.A. - Nigeria: It's the new megacity in town, that's challenging the old guard. Paint a picture of the average American street anywhere in the country, and it will look more akin to LA than New York. Los Angeles is the top dogg of suburban city design, and Lagos is now the largest city of West African urbanity.  Also, bet that any criminal worldwide, born after 1980, has picked up something from Gangsta rap. Gangsta rap is partly responsible for the proliferation of Crips and Bloods across all but a few US cities. Nigeria is the "gangsta rap" of notoriety in the criminal World, (except they in every city). Also Nollywood.  

Washington D.C. - Ethiopia: The largest group of Black immigrants in DC originate from, (take a wild guess) - Ethiopia. Ethiopia is the capital of the African union, the center of ancient knowledge, as DC is the center of "ancient" US knowledge. Ethiopia has it's religious mystery history and Washington DC has its Masonic mystery history. Much as Politics are the highest position of power, Ethiopia is highest place, literally in all of Africa. It's also home to the African Union.

Chicago - The DRC: Say the "The Democratic Republic of the Congo" in a working-class Chicago accent. It's the literal center of the continent, with the 3rd most important megacity - Kinshasa. With the advent of cellphone technology, industry is the biggest industry. 

The Bay - Morocco: Like NYC, SF is also an outlier in a sense. SF has a feel of a small West Coast counterpart to NYC. Morocco is the West Coast counterpart to Egypt. Points for it being right below Spain.  

Philadelphia - Kenya: Kenya is the American dream of Africa. By American dream, I'm referring to nature, the west, the manifest destiny, buffalo, coyotes. How long did the image of safaris and the wild nature of Africa resonate with us? For a long time, it was the only thing we had to associate with the real Africa, Africa. When I was a kid, I remember seeing the Nairobi skyline as the proxy for the modern Africa. It was the Philadelphia of our Western idea of Africa. The first big city, the first "Place". I bet Philly got a lot of Kenyas too.   

Atlanta - Ghana: Its become the Black spiritual home, so much, the price raise on the rent came along with it. 

Houston - Algeria: - The Oil Giant. While Nigerians are known for doing business with oil (something LA used to do), the biggest reserves of oil are in that regions.   

New Orleans - South Africa: It's where shit gets weird. Where everybody you meet look like they could be from 30 different places. The bottom of the Mississippi and the bottom of the continent. 

Miami - Madagascar: We ain't from Africa, we from the 305. Florida might as well be another land mass separate from the US. Miami is the most tropical city in the US. Madagascar "out-tropicals" the rest of the continent.

Gorilla Economics

Gorilla Economics , A gorilla watches, holds dominion over Economics. A Gorilla is adaptable, able to consume a vulture if need be.

Racists and etc part 2 - Rules of engagement.

The rules of engagement when dealing with racist trolls:

(without resorting to punching them in the mouth). 

If they call you out your name:

Ignore them or remind them that it's rude. Never ever hit them (unless the Lord forces yo hand and you have to convenience store Iced Tea a muthaf..)

If they use criticism meant to trigger you:

I.e. "Your people are too busy hurting each other" 

Thank them. Agree and ask what can we do. Use "we" because the problem was important enough for them to mention. 

"Stop playing the victim" - Thank them, agree with them and do exactly that. Play the victor. 

Weaponized Sarcasm:

Racists will weaponize sarcasm, again, to trigger you. Sarcasm has the caveat that once its written down, and placed out of context, it's just a statement. Ignore the sad sneering face spoken behind such statements as:

"Oh yeah that's going to work" 

"Yes, why wouldn't it" 

"And let me guess, you're going to......"

"Of course." 

"I'm sorry, but...." 

"Apology accepted" 

Armed Facts and Stats:

Racists will try to "arm" facts to trigger you into anger or despair, especially facts that concern violence. They want the truth,  or "the truth", to hurt you, (which it should in some cases). If it doesn't hurt you, they often will become flustered, angry, frustrated.

This is a golden opportunity to, again, agree with them that there is a problem. 

"So what we gon do about it?"

Remind them that because they cared enough to mention said facts, they are invested in the overall safety and security of everyone, which is the same thing you want. 

If they aren't invested in the safety and security of everyone, tell them that they're stupid, (politely of course.) 

And now, time for some Trump approved music: 

The Bizz

Ain't too many messing with Bizzy Bone on the mic:

Racists and etc

 All racists eventually reduce themselves to a catty, whiny, sissy, b**ch ass representation of themselves, (if they aren't like that from the jump). One of the toughest things to NOT do as a Black Man, is get triggered enough to provoke yourself into an outburst of anger. Holding back is tough, and it will make you cry for real. 

Still, this cat-like phenomena of #rrracism is like someone took the energy of the triflin gossiping b**ch from prototypical mean girl squad, and brought it over to the male side. It's tough not to react, and its tough to defend when you react. Racists always seem to possess that "brainy villain captures hero", legs crossed whilst giving a speech, sassy type of demeanor. Sometimes it's less obvious. Statements like "We just want to live with who we want to live with!" as spoken by white supremacists, automatically come with that b**ch ass energy. I bet you, as the reader can't even repeat their rhetoric without twisting your neck. Thanks to fo-5/fo-7, it's probably gon be a barrage of these muthaf**kas in the media for a significant time. #Arthur fist

Ugh:

Twiddly Finger Conqueror and other randomness

In case of emergency, always remind yourself that alligators and crocodiles are mini-dinosaurs. 

Anxiety is like the villain from IT, whatever one fears the most will get amplified if one doesn't clear the mind and focus on the tangible, the physical sensation of the body, objectively, like a scientist. 

Mystikal, e-40, Bizzy Bone, Pharoahe Monch - "F**k yo beat!" - Good song idea. 

Conquerors, those of the negative ilk, all possess twiddly little fingers. If not in actual demeanor (like stubborn Presidential candidates helming the fries), but also in mentality. Imagine if all educational media depicted conquerors with twiddly little fingers? How would the human mind react? 

Tanzania

From this video I get the sense that the pace of development is the extreme edge of rapid and the extreme edge of slow. 

Development patterns in many African cities look surprisingly similar to American cities. The land usage is mixed between areas of high density housing, low density housing, single family homes, multi family homes, high rises, auto-oriented boulevards, pedestrian oriented commercial streets, auto-oriented businesses, all in various states of cohesion or non-cohesion. This is mad different from much of what you will find around the World, where cities have endless neighborhoods consisting of typical high to super high population density. High density is typical for big cities in most of the World, except America. Interesting to see similarities from a place so different.